Mogami 3106 - Bass Heads, this is for you.

I resurrected this pair from the closet and frybaby them in for 24 hours...They are a full meal deal alright.After the weekend with them my opinion of them has shifted from meh to wtf was i thinking.Things have opened up are dialing in.Ok they are what they are...but some of the jazz bass stuff is the nicest tone/weight i have had in my system.For stand mount yeah this still has some awg to throw at them...all in all its a pretty satisfying listen after all.

I don't use Mogami for balanced.  I use my own DH Labs pure silver balanced and shileded. 

I needed a cheap pair of cables for a balanced connection so I chose Mogami and after about 50 hours they kind of suck. Perhaps they will get better, but lower mid-grade would be my rating at this point. What I will say is that using and comparing cables on a true differentially balanced pre and power amp doesnt highlight cable differences as much as when I used single ended. 

Come on Erik:

You know the drill (wait a few hundred hours).

My recently put together mini system is now sounding quite good (3 weeks in).

Can't pontuncate as to break-in of the various components as it's such a hodgepodge of 15 year old NOS/new-new and the speakers/power cord that have not been used in the past 10 years, but it sounds a hell of a lot better than it did 2 weeks ago.

I was concerned about the old NIB Sharp SD-EX111 still boxed 15 years later, and also about the new stranded Canare cable (never been a fan of stranded speaker cable), but  it sounds good enough to look into better (easier to drive) speakers.

The Polk RT15's usually require a lot more power than the Sharp's 20 watt Class-D output, but this is a near-field setup for the computer (45" from speaker to ear).

What's funny is that the Sharp was $75/shipped/closeout (retail $500) and the Polk's were $13.50 @ a local thrift.

The Tripp-lite surge protector/Canare speaker cable/spades for the Canare cost more than than the Sharp/Polk's (then add in the lonely/unsued for a decade $400+ BMI power cord;-).

In hindsight I should have made 12" Canare speaker cables in order that I could switch them into the main rig (compare them to the 47 Labs OTA).

DeKay

Mogami 3104 does have alot of low end...good lowend though.With enough burnin it does balance out <> eventually.The pangeas were perfect with this (7 awg).

It is dark...but neutral.Stripping these things...learning curve/splice is my recommendation.

Doh, got the model wrong.  The 4 conductor is 3104.  The 2 conductor is 3103.

Best prices on 3104 I know of is at Markertek, but only Parts Express has 3103 by the foot.